Asli Özyürek

According to our database, Asli Özyürek authored at least 57 papers between 2007 and 2026.

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2026

HolisticSemGes: Semantic Grounding of Holistic Co-Speech Gesture Generation with Contrastive Flow-Matching.

Lanmiao Liu, Esam Ghaleb, Asli Özyürek, Zerrin Yumak

CoRR, March, 2026

2025

The Visual Iconicity Challenge: Evaluating Vision-Language Models on Sign Language Form-Meaning Mapping.

Onur Keles, Asli Özyürek, Gerardo Ortega, Kadir Gökgöz, Esam Ghaleb

CoRR, October, 2025

You Prefer This One, I Prefer Yours: Using Reference Words is Harder Than Vocabulary Words for Humans and Multimodal Language Models.

Dota Tianai Dong, Yifan Luo, Po-Ya Angela Wang, Asli Özyürek, Paula Rubio-Fernández

CoRR, June, 2025

Gesture Reduces Mapping Difficulties in the Development of Spatial Language Depending on the Complexity of Spatial Relations.

Ercenur Ünal, Kevser Kirbasoglu, Dilay Z. Karadöller, Beyza Sümer, Asli Özyürek

Cogn. Sci., February, 2025

Extending the Architecture of Language From a Multimodal Perspective.

Peter Hagoort, Asli Özyürek

Top. Cogn. Sci., 2025

Gestural and Verbal Evidence of Conceptual Representation Differences in Blind and Sighted Individuals.

Ezgi Mamus, Laura J. Speed, Gerardo Ortega, Asifa Majid, Asli Özyürek

Cogn. Sci., 2025

SemGes: Semantics-Aware Co-Speech Gesture Generation Using Semantic Coherence and Relevance Learning.

Lanmiao Liu, Esam Ghaleb, Asli Özyürek, Zerrin Yumak

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, 2025

What Insights Human Cognition Can Offer to Enhance Computational Models of Multimodal Language Generation?

Asli Özyürek

Proceedings of the International Workshop on Generation and Evaluation of Non-verbal Behaviour for Embodied Agents, 2025

Blind Speakers' Path Gestures Are More Precise Than Those of Sighted and Blindfolded Speakers.

Ezgi Mamus, Mounika Kanakanti, Asli Özyürek

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

I see what you mean: Co-Speech Gestures for Reference Resolution in Multimodal Dialogue.

Esam Ghaleb, Bulat Khaertdinov, Asli Özyürek, Raquel Fernández

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025

2024

Leveraging Speech for Gesture Detection in Multimodal Communication.

Esam Ghaleb, Ilya Burenko, Marlou Rasenberg, Wim T. J. L. Pouw, Ivan Toni, Peter Uhrig, Anna Wilson, Judith Holler, Asli Özyürek, Raquel Fernández

CoRR, 2024

Co-Speech Gesture Detection through Multi-Phase Sequence Labeling.

Esam Ghaleb, Ilya Burenko, Marlou Rasenberg, Wim T. J. L. Pouw, Peter Uhrig, Judith Holler, Ivan Toni, Asli Özyürek, Raquel Fernández

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, 2024

Learning Co-Speech Gesture Representations in Dialogue through Contrastive Learning: An Intrinsic Evaluation.

Esam Ghaleb, Bulat Khaertdinov, Wim T. J. L. Pouw, Marlou Rasenberg, Judith Holler, Asli Özyürek, Raquel Fernández

Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2024

Kinematic modulations of iconicity in child-directed communication in Italian Sign Language.

Anita Slonimska, Alessio Di Renzo, Mounika Kanakanti, Emanuela Campisi, Asli Özyürek

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

Differences in the gesture kinematics of blind, blindfolded, and sighted speakers.

Ezgi Mamus, Mounika Kanakanti, Asli Özyürek

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

Children's visual attention when planning informative multimodal descriptions of object locations.

Dilay Z. Karadöller, Asli Özyürek, Ercenur Ünal

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

Analysing Cross-Speaker Convergence in Face-to-Face Dialogue through the Lens of Automatically Detected Shared Linguistic Constructions.

Esam Ghaleb, Marlou Rasenberg, Wim T. J. L. Pouw, Ivan Toni, Judith Holler, Asli Özyürek, Raquel Fernández

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

Speakers align both their gestures and words not only to establish but also to maintain reference to create shared labels for novel objects in interaction.

Sho Akamine, Esam Ghaleb, Marlou Rasenberg, Raquel Fernández, Antje Meyer, Asli Özyürek

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

2023

Lack of Visual Experience Affects Multimodal Language Production: Evidence From Congenitally Blind and Sighted People.

Ezgi Mamus, Laura J. Speed, Lilia Rissman, Asifa Majid, Asli Özyürek

Cogn. Sci., January, 2023

Lack of visual experience influences silent gesture productions for concepts across semantic categories.

Ezgi Mamus, Laura J. Speed, Gerardo Ortega, Asifa Majid, Asli Özyürek

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

Space in Context: Communicative factors shape spatial language.

Myrto Grigoroglou, Barbara Landau, Anna Papafragou, Ercenur Ünal, Kevser Kirbasoglu, Dilay Z. Karadöller, Beyza Sümer, Asli Özyürek, Barend Beekhuizen, Kenny R. Coventry, Piotr J. Barc, Lucy-Amber Roberts, Harmen Gudde

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

2022

The CABB dataset: A multimodal corpus of communicative interactions for behavioural and neural analyses.

Lotte Eijk, Marlou Rasenberg, Flavia Arnese, Mark Blokpoel, Mark Dingemanse, Christian F. Doeller, Mirjam Ernestus, Judith Holler, Branka Milivojevic, Asli Özyürek, Wim T. J. L. Pouw, Iris van Rooij, Herbert Schriefers, Ivan Toni, James P. Trujillo, Sara Bögels

NeuroImage, 2022

Simultaneity as an Emergent Property of Efficient Communication in Language: A Comparison of Silent Gesture and Sign Language.

Anita Slonimska, Asli Özyürek, Olga Capirci

Cogn. Sci., 2022

Universality and Diversity in Event Cognition and Language.

Yue Ji, Caroline Andrews, Sebastian Sauppe, Monique Flecken, Roberto Zariquiey, Itziar Laka, Moritz M. Daum, Ercenur Ünal, Anna Papafragou, Lilia Rissman, Saskia van Putten, Asifa Majid, Francie Manhardt, Asli Özyürek, Arrate Isasi-Isasmendi, Martin Meyer, Balthasar Bickel

Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

2021

A Systematic Investigation of Gesture Kinematics in Evolving Manual Languages in the Lab.

Wim T. J. L. Pouw, Mark Dingemanse, Yasamin Motamedi, Asli Özyürek

Cogn. Sci., 2021

Semantically Related Gestures Move Alike: Towards a Distributional Semantics of Gesture Kinematics.

Wim T. J. L. Pouw, Jan de Wit, Sara Bögels, Marlou Rasenberg, Branka Milivojevic, Asli Özyürek

Proceedings of the Digital Human Modeling and Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics and Risk Management. Human Body, Motion and Behavior, 2021

Is it for all? Spatial abilities matter in processing gestures during the comprehension of spatial language.

Demet Özer, Asli Özyürek, Tilbe Göksun

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

Sensory Modality of Input Influences the Encoding of Motion Events in Speech But Not Co-Speech Gestures.

Ezgi Mamus, Laura J. Speed, Asli Özyürek, Asifa Majid

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

Spatial Language Use Predicts Spatial Memory of Children: Evidence from Sign, Speech, and Speech-plus-gesture.

Dilay Z. Karadöller, Beyza Sümer, Ercenur Ünal, Asli Özyürek

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

2020

Alignment in Multimodal Interaction: An Integrative Framework.

Marlou Rasenberg, Asli Özyürek, Mark Dingemanse

Cogn. Sci., 2020

From Hands to Brains: How Does Human Body Talk, Think and Interact in Face-to-Face Language Use?

Asli Özyürek

Proceedings of the ICMI '20: International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2020

2019

Native and non-native listeners show similar yet distinct oscillatory dynamics when using gestures to access speech in noise.

Linda Drijvers, Mircea van der Plas, Asli Özyürek, Ole Jensen

NeuroImage, 2019

Degree of Language Experience Modulates Visual Attention to Visible Speech and Iconic Gestures During Clear and Degraded Speech Comprehension.

Linda Drijvers, Julija Vaitonyte, Asli Özyürek

Cogn. Sci., 2019

Effects of Blindfolding on Verbal and Gestural Expression of Path in Auditory Motion Events.

Ezgi Mamus, Lilia Rissman, Asifa Majid, Asli Özyürek

Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

Speaking but not Gesturing Predicts Motion Event Memory Within and Across Languages.

Marlijn ter Bekke, Asli Özyürek, Ercenur Ünal

Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

2018

Alpha and Beta Oscillations Index Semantic Congruency between Speech and Gestures in Clear and Degraded Speech.

Linda Drijvers, Asli Özyürek, Ole Jensen

J. Cogn. Neurosci., 2018

2017

Speakers' gestures predict the meaning and perception of iconicity in signs.

Gerardo Ortega, Annika Schiefner, Asli Özyürek

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

Effects of Delayed Language Exposure on Spatial Language Acquisition by Signing Children and Adults.

Dilay Z. Karadöller, Beyza Sümer, Asli Özyürek

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

Highly Proficient Bilinguals Maintain the Language-Specific Pragmatic Constraints on Pronouns: Evidence from Speech and Gesture.

Zeynep Azar, Ad Backus, Asli Özyürek

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

2016

Beat that Word: How Listeners Integrate Beat Gesture and Focus in Multimodal Speech Discourse.

Diana Dimitrova, Mingyuan Chu, Lin Wang, Asli Özyürek, Peter Hagoort

J. Cogn. Neurosci., 2016

Generalisable patterns of gesture distinguish semantic categories in communication without language.

Gerardo Ortega, Asli Özyürek

Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016

Pragmatic relativity: Gender and context affect the use of personal pronouns in discourse differentially across languages.

Zeynep Azar, Ad Backus, Asli Özyürek

Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016

2015

The Influence of the Visual Modality on Language Structure and Conventionalization: Insights From Sign Language and Gesture.

Pamela Perniss, Asli Özyürek, Gary Morgan

Top. Cogn. Sci., 2015

Visible Cohesion: A Comparison of Reference Tracking in Sign, Speech, and Co-Speech Gesture.

Pamela Perniss, Asli Özyürek

Top. Cogn. Sci., 2015

Electrophysiological and Kinematic Correlates of Communicative Intent in the Planning and Production of Pointing Gestures and Speech.

David Peeters, Mingyuan Chu, Judith Holler, Peter Hagoort, Asli Özyürek

J. Cogn. Neurosci., 2015

2014

Learning to Express Left-Right & Front-Behind in a Sign versus Spoken Language.

Beyza Sümer, Pamela Perniss, Inge Zwitserlood, Asli Özyürek

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2014

The Interplay between Joint Attention, Physical Proximity, and Pointing Gesture in Demonstrative Choice.

David Peeters, Zeynep Azar, Asli Özyürek

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2014

Type of iconicity matters: Bias for action-based signs in sign language acquisition.

Gerardo Ortega, Beyza Sümer, Asli Özyürek

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2014

2013

Getting to the Point: The Influence of Communicative Intent on the Kinematics of Pointing Gestures.

David Peeters, Mingyuan Chu, Judith Holler, Asli Özyürek, Peter Hagoort

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

Here's not looking at you, kid! Unaddressed recipients benefit from co-speech gestures when speech processing suffers.

Judith Holler, Louise Schubotz, Spencer Kelly, Peter Hagoort, Manuela Schuetze, Asli Özyürek

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

2012

When gestures catch the eye: The influence of gaze direction on co-speech gesture comprehension in triadic communication.

Judith Holler, Spencer Kelly, Peter Hagoort, Asli Özyürek

Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2012

2011

The Role of Synchrony and Ambiguity in Speech-Gesture Integration during Comprehension.

Boukje Habets, Sotaro Kita, Zeshu Shao, Asli Özyürek, Peter Hagoort

J. Cogn. Neurosci., 2011

Does Space Structure Spatial Language? Linguistic Encoding of Space in Sign Languages.

Pamela Perniss, Inge Zwitserlood, Asli Özyürek

Proceedings of the 33th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2011

2009

Differential roles for left inferior frontal and superior temporal cortex in multimodal integration of action and language.

Roel M. Willems, Asli Özyürek, Peter Hagoort

NeuroImage, 2009

The Role of Iconic Gestures in Production and Comprehension of Language: Evidence from Brain and Behavior.

Asli Özyürek

Proceedings of the Gesture in Embodied Communication and Human-Computer Interaction, 2009

2008

Seeing and Hearing Meaning: ERP and fMRI Evidence of Word versus Picture Integration into a Sentence Context.

Roel M. Willems, Asli Özyürek, Peter Hagoort

J. Cogn. Neurosci., 2008

2007

On-line Integration of Semantic Information from Speech and Gesture: Insights from Event-related Brain Potentials.

Asli Özyürek, Roel M. Willems, Sotaro Kita, Peter Hagoort

J. Cogn. Neurosci., 2007